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October 28, 2019
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2019-10-28
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Afghanistan–Pakistan barrier
Three women are killed after
Afghan and Pakistani forces
clash in
Kunar Province
.
(CityNews Vancouver)
Kashmir conflict
Twenty people are injured in a grenade attack in
Sopore
.
(Reuters)
Maghreb insurgency
Pobé Mengao shooting
Gunmen kill 16 people after they refused to help buy them
ammunition
. The attack happened in the village of
Pobé Mengao
in
Burkina Faso
.
(
Jeune Afrique
)
Bayonne mosque shooting
A gunman opens fire on a
mosque
in
Bayonne
,
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
,
France
, wounding two before being detained. The perpetrator is an 84-year-old man who ran for the
National Front
in the
2015 regional elections
.
(
The Daily Telegraph
)
War in Afghanistan
An
improvised explosive device
detonates in a partially constructed building in
Bati Kot
,
Afghanistan
. The bomb kills two labourers and injures five more, three seriously.
(Xinhua News Agency)
Arts and culture
Pope Francis
officially renames the
Vatican Secret Archive
to the
Vatican Apostolic Archive
.
(Detroit News)
Disasters and accidents
An explosion kills five people at a petroleum plant in
Shaanxi
,
China
. A further three are missing.
(
South China Morning Post
)
Law and crime
Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
Charles Kupperman
,
U.S. President
Donald Trump
's former
deputy national security adviser
, defies a
congressional
subpoena
to testify before the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
regarding the
impeachment inquiry into President Trump
.
(CNN)
Politics and elections
Brexit negotiations
The
European Union
agrees to delay the deadline again for a
Brexit
deal until January 31, 2020.
(BBC News)
October 2019 Iraqi protests
The
Iraqi
government enacts a curfew in
Baghdad
as renewed protests enters its fourth day.
(Al Jazeera)
2019 Chilean protests
President
Sebastián Piñera
changes eight ministries of his
cabinet
, notably with
Interior Minister
Andrés Chadwick
and
Financial Minister
Felipe Larraín Bascuñán
being replaced with
Gonzalo Blumel
and
Ignacio Briones
respectively. New rounds of protests and riots erupt in
Santiago
and other cities after the announcement.
(BBC News)
(
The Guardian
)
2019–20 Lebanese protests
Central Bank Governor
Riad Salame
says the economy of Lebanon is "days" away from collapsing.
(CNN)
Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
The
U.S. House of Representatives
announces it will vote this week to formalize the
impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump
.
(CNN)
Science and technology
A study by
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
in
Sydney
, and headed by geneticist
Vanessa Hayes
, pinpoints the
Okavango region
in northern
Botswana
as
the origin of
modern humans
. Other scientists express skepticism at this, particularly at the study's primary evidence coming from
mitochondrial DNA
.
(BBC News)
(
The Guardian
)
(
Nature
)
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